The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803; explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commericial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the beginning of the nineteenth century; [Vol. 1, no. 48]

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rapid rivers, and, despising danger, made his way
into the most secluded places, in which there are
many apostates and Carib5' blacks, of which sort are
all those who are in the mountains of these islands.
Such power had his zeal and constancy that he gained
no small number of souls, since from those who were
converted he was able to form three small villages;
but, while he was praying one day in the little house
which he had made for his dwelling, some apostates
killed him with their lances. At present the said mission is cared for, on account of the great deficiency
of men that we experience, by two religious who are
in the village of Bugasson."
[All these missions were still conducted, when
Mozo wrote, and were saving many souls; but their
work was greatly limited and hindered by the scarcity
of workers. These missionaries displayed the same
spirit of devotion, zeal for souls, and self-sacrifice as
did the earlier ones, but "with this difference [in
results], that our predecessors dealt with peoples
who were gentler and more civilized, while those of
the present time are handling people who are more
fierce and barbarous; and for this reason their triumphs must be the more glorious, and their virtue
and constancy most firmly grounded. Many other
souls are caught for Heaven in these islands by those
religious who serve in villages near the districts
where there are infidels, of which there are many in
the said islands. They penetrate further into the
country when they are permitted to do so, and they
lose no opportunity when those [infidels] go down
51 Carib: the name of the Indian race who inhabited the
Antilles and adjacent coasts when the New World was discovered; also applied in general to fierce (and especially to
cannibal) savages.